Improvement in shelves for ovens of cooking-stoves



UNITED STATES PATENT (DlEEICE.

SAMUEL S. UTTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHELVES FOR OVENS OF COOKlNG-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 101,549, dated April 5, 1870.

To atl whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL S. UTTEE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Stoves, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section with the shelf shown in its place by full lines, and by dotted lines as raised out of its seat; Fig. 2, a similar section with the shelf drawn out, Figs. 3 and 4, side and back edge views of the shelf.

My invention relates to that class of im provements which does away with the necessity of using drop oven-doors, and especially has reference to the slide or shelt' which holds the meat or other food to be cooked, as such shelf is partially or wholly withdrawn from the overl for, the purpose of examining the food. This, as well as the insertion or withdrawal of such shelf from the oven, can be effected by my improvement very conveniently. Heretofore, this has been attempted to be effected by permitting the slide or shelf to run between ilanges on each side; but this is an expensive construction, and to release the shelt' from between such flanges it inust be first wholly withdrawn from the oven. My improved device, therefore, consists in the substitution of claws or hooked devices for one of these flanges on each side, such device being placed on or being a part of the shelf, and which locks into the other flange, such other flange having an opening or openings at some point or points thereof at which these claws or hooks can release themselves from or be .inserted into the llange. The flange on each side may also have a stop at its end nearest the door, a sufficient distance within, so that there will be a bearing or support left for the Withdrawn slide, and still not permit of its further withdrawal by accident or otherwise.

I will describe the drawings illustrating my improvement.

a is the oven; b, a slide or shelf on which the pan of food rests. This shelf has on each side one or more hooks made in the edge near its back end, by'slitting such edge a short distance in, and then bending backward and downward the material contained between these slits, as seen at c c c c. These bent projections hook against the underneath part of the flanges d, one of such flanges being placed on each side of the oven; such ange being notched or cut at e e', so that such hook can pass to the underneath portion of the flange. Near the outer end of the ange, on each side of the oven, another portion of the metal thereof is out so as to turn down and present a resisting face, ff, which prevents the further passage of the hooks c c c c in a forward direction. In order to release the slide, it is run back to the end, or nearly so, of the oven, and the hooks then pass up through the openings e e', and the slide is free to be withdrawn from or lifted out of the oven, as shown in Fig. l.

What I claim as my invention isl. rIhe combination of the oven-anges, constructed as described, with the hooked projections of the slide, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. Providing the oven-ange with openings, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The oven-flange, constructed'with a stop, substantially as and for the purpose described.

SAMUEL S. UTTER.

Witnesses A. B. MALcoMsoN, J r., J. H. HUNTER. 

